Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...

A Soviet astronomer in the 1960s proposed a scale to classify hypothetical alien civilizations. Here’s why the framework is ...

Star Trek's Prime Directive revolutionized the science fiction genre by promoting cooperation and non-interference with alien ...

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A polarizing Harvard astronomer has been appointed to lead a Trump administration panel studying UFOs. Avi Loeb is leading a ...

While many believe that extraterrestrial life exists somewhere in the vast universe, others argue that the fact that 'aliens have never appeared on Earth' is the reason why highly intelligent ...

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Attention human. You are receiving an interstellar radio transmission. And it could be coming from one of the nearest exoplanets, Proxima Centauri b. What conditions make this planet a candidate for ...

The best way to find alien technosignatures is to look for ones that have long survived their creators, according to a new ...

On May 22, 2026, the Pentagon released a second batch of previously classified photos and videos showing what appear to be unexplained flying objects. These file dumps were the culmination of a ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson has had a lifelong fantasy of being abducted by aliens. That’s right, he actually wants to be taken. “I even picture the scenario in my head: I’m sitting out there alone, and a ...